E-mail updates aren’t my thing. I don’t want to know about the latest fashion trends. I don’t want to receive weekly e-mails with discounts and exciting new product information. If I want to know, I’ll go out looking for it. That’s why the World Wide Web is so magnificent–there’s information at the stroke of a key. Despite my dislike of pseudo-spam, there is one e-mail list I signed up for with glee: The Urban Word of the Day.Here are a few of my recent favs that may help expand your mind, as well as your vocabulary. And generally make you more cool. Ho ho ho: Santa’s cry or three prostitutes. WD55: An acronym for Windows Down 55 miles an hour. A primitive form of air condition most helpful to 60’s and 70’s Volkswagen Bug pilots. Sleeper: Outwardly common looking item, that possesses something special or unique inside. Emo kid: One who rejects "pop culture" and joins the counter-culture realm. Zarf: Those little cardboard thingies they put around your cup of coffee at Starbucks. They call it a cup-sleeve, but it actually is called a zarf. iPod: The world’s smallest form of penis compensation. Gits: Short person or little kids. Someone who is bossy uses the term to address little or younger ones. Q-tip: A person of much older age (70-80) who still is some what capable of driving. All you can see is their little white hairs creeping over the steering wheel.
Urban Word Up
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